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Faced with commercialization, the Black Punk community turns to its past for a guide to keep resisting

Keeping Black history will always be necessary, but it takes a toll

Comic: I’m waiting for Black conspiracy theorists to turn their attention towards cisheteropatriarchy

Feature: Grassroots organization BYP100 uses “radical inclusion” to combat racial injustice

Black women, our closeted emotional needs won’t get met

“E pluribus unum”: Federalism is a reactionary structure built on anti-Blackness

Sometimes, I give gentrifiers the wrong directions when they get lost

Don’t get too excited about tech advances. Many are designed to leave Black people behind

Richard Akuson: the ‘A Nasty Boy’ editor talks the future of his queer fashion magazine and life as an asylum seeker in the U.S.

#UnderHisEye and the erasure of Black women in the carceral system

New social media checks for visa applicants show the dangerous transformation of surveillance in the US

Steve McQueen’s ‘Bear’ is an exploration of intimacies among Black men

There’s no such thing as a “progressive prosecutor” in a system designed to criminalize Blackness

How heterosexual Black men project the psycho-sexual traumas of the plantation onto our queer brethren

In and out of the closet: Rejecting the heteronormative binary of “coming out”

The ghost of the racist “father of modern gynecology” is still killing Black infants & child-bearers

‘Pose’ is a masterful piece of queer historical fiction

Being a bi grey asexual means continually redefining desire away from limiting social constructs

Somewhere over the rainbow: Reading the Pride symbol as a queering of the Bible

Anti-Blackness knows no borders: How nation-centric understandings of Blackness fails us

Comic: Cis folks need to stop masking their transphobia as “preference”

Black military men’s bodies are the cost of their patriotism

How Black Mirror’s “Striking Vipers” episode failed bisexual men & trans women

Reproductive justice advocacy requires more than being “pro-choice”

What do you do when childhood trauma makes you close off from the care you need to heal it?

The silent pain of transwomen—or, why I don’t have male privilege

Resisting constant surveillance in my predominantly white neighborhood

Dear Inbetweener: Finding my place as a bisexual biracial man

Linda Fairstein will always feel justified because there’s no accountability for the violence of white feminism

I want Black time travelers to be a threat to the status quo

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